Hello Duncan and René,
Duncan, René correctly stated that I am not actually using my KDE
system for this email exchange. Rather, I am using my Windows PC and
Gmail within the Chrome browser. However, you have captured my
sentiment perfectly! :) Furthermore, you both have offered many great
tips--including the tip regarding Google's Noto font. I will
certainly look into these avenues as a workaround/fix for my woes.
Thank you again for all your wonderful support. I very much appreciate it.
Kind regards,
--
Mun
On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 8:02 PM Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> René J.V. Bertin posted on Tue, 01 Aug 2023 13:13:22 +0200 as excerpted:
>
> > On Tuesday August 01 2023 04:54:34 Duncan wrote:
> >
> >>What I'm saying is that if you can see them in my message, you /must/
> >>have at least one font installed that can display them! =:^)
> >
> > Not necessarily if he's using some kind of web interface (in a proper
> > browser) which leverages webfonts for this kind of thing. ;^)
>
> Valid and very good point.
>
> (Being old-school, or for many I suppose just old, I tend to default to a
> local mail client assumption, unless someone specifically says otherwise.
> But webmail's likely a more accurate default these days, and for the
> browser, not everyone runs uBlock-origin in default-deny mode including no
> off-main-site webfonts (or similar) by default for security as I do either,
> so they actually see the web-fonts. So valid and very good point, indeed.)
>
> Rather invalidates my assumptions about having at least one font that
> includes those characters, unfortunately, which could then invalidate that
> whole workaround...
>
> Unless of course he's willing to install, perhaps under his home dir, an
> appropriate font with the necessary code-point coverage, if there's none
> available in the distro fonts packages. FWIW I believe google's noto font
> set is supposed to have the widest coverage, and noto sans is what I had
> kcharselect set to when I selected the characters.
>
> --
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> "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
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